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/ WENT AWAY WITH THE BOOTY Elderly Iri6h Lady Proved She Wa? wuite Capable of Rising to the Occasion. Lord Spencer, when viceroy of Ire land, used to keep open house, and all ladles and gentlemen who had attended drawing-rooms or levees had au unwritten right to attend the St. Patrick's day ball. Some very queer people UBed to present themselves. Not contented with eating and drinking all they could, many persons used to make predatory raids on the tables and carry ofT eatableB of all sorts. On one occasion the comptroller saw a tout, elderly lady take a whole fowl and stuff it with considerable deftness Into a somewhat capacious silk and embroidered bag. He at once went up to her and pointing with his finger a! the bag. said: "Mjdam, won't you take some ham with that V The good lady was not in the least abashed, but replied: "Ah, capthin, sure it's a Joker you are," and stuck to her booty.?From Sir Alfred Turner's Autobiography. Perils of Overdelicacy. A bridegroom gave his best man an envelope. "Hand it to the parson after the ceremony," he said, "but don't do it ostentatiously." The best man followed instructions, but it seems that he performed his task too covertly, for the father of the bridegroom, after the pair had departed, believed that an omission had occurred and quietly pressed a banknote into the minister's hand. But he also was too secretive about it, and before the party broke up the bride's brother felt called upon to draw the minister aside and thrust a $10 bill upon him. Lady Uses Tetterlne for Eczema. Edgar Springs, Mo., July 15. 1908. The Eczema on my face usually appears In the spring and your salve always helps It. I use no other preparation but Tetterlne and find it superior to any on tha market Respectfully, Elsie M. Judvlne. Tetterine cures Eczema. Tetter, Itching Piles, Ring Worm and every form of Scalp and Skin Disease. Tetterlne 50c: Tetterlne 8oap Sc. At druggists or by mall direct from The 8huptrlne Co., Savannah, Oa. With every mall order for Tetterlne we Eve a box of Shuptrlne'a 10c LJver Pills ee. Adv. One of His Worst. The Doctor?Did you hear about that Methodist preacher's daughter down south who turned sleuth, hunt, ed up the pickpocket who had robbed her of her purse, and finally landed him in the penitentiary? The Professor?Good for her! She was an M. E. sis, with a vengeance.?Chicago Tribune. AKTCT THE DOCTOR FAILED. Even the moat stubborn cases of malaria yield to Elixir Ilabek. "In the summer of 1896. I contracted the disease known as Malaria. After & year's fruitless treatment by a prominent Washington physician. I was entirely cured by your Elixir Bnbek."? Brasle O'Ha(ran. Troop E. 6th U. S. Cav. It la equally g->od for bilious disorders. Elixir Italtek. 50 cents, all druggists. or Kloczcwski & Co., Washington..L?.C. Adv Demands of Trade. "It would seem u flagrantly clear case," said the magistrate, adding, to the burglar who had been haled before him. "What have you to say for your elf?" "Not much, your honor. But I hope you can give me a short sentence. This is my busy season.?Judge. Burduco Liver Powder. Nature's remedy for biliousness, ?n.(in??inn indicestlon and all atom ch diseases. A vegetable preparation, better than calomel and will not salivate. In screw top cans at 25c each. Harwell & Dunn Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. Adv. Able Work. Filklns?Thought you Intended to sell your suburban home? Wilkins?1 did, until 1 read the alluring story my advertising man wrote; then I decided to keep it myself.? Judge. A great majority of summer ills are due to Malariti in suppressed form. Lassitude and hendacbe* are but two symptoms. OXIDIVE eradicates the Malaria germ and toneu up the entire system. Adv. Her Ideal. "What is your idea of an ideal husmand. Mrs. Muchwed?" "One who will begin paying you alimony without waiting for the Judge to name the amount." Kind to Watch. "Dibts apparently has no bad habits." "Beware of that man!" TO DRIVE OUT MAI.ARIA AND Hl.TLD I'P THE STSTEW T%k? th* Old Standard GBOVg-S TASTKl.KSd r-nii r. T<?vir Ton know what yon are taking. The formula l? plainly printed on e*cry bottle. how!It la ! ; ply Qnlnme and Iron In .1 taatel,'** form, anl the iiiont effectual form, for grown peopls and children. AO c?nta. AJt. Not Frequent. "Do you like rare beef?" "Is there any other kind these days?" DOES VOFTt HEAD ACHE? Try Hicks' CAPUDIN'E. It's liquid?pleasant tota,ke?elTecta Immediate?(ro<>d toprerent Blok Headache* and Nervous Head.-vche* also. Your m->nry hack If not aa tin fled. 10c., 25c. and 10c. at medicine stores. Adv. The Reason. "Mine Is a sunny lot," he moaned. He moaned about It because his lot was so Bunny he coudln't sell It. If your apoetite is not what it should he perhaps Malaria ia developing. It affecti the whole nyetem. OXTDInE will clear wav the jr?rm?. rid yon of Malaria find generally improve your condition. Adv. No man can stand In his own light without casting a shadow. pro5 : that51 Kjr&r fg IF Burton W. Gibson, the lawyer, shall be convicted of the murder of Mrs. Rose M. Stabo it will be because of a very little thing, writes Charles Somerville in the New York World. The list is long of men (and women too) who have gone to gallows, guillotine, garote and electric chair through Borne little Inadvertence in a well-laid scheme of murder? some apparently trifling accident that has developed into a giant of condemnatory circumstances. If GibBon be found guilty, then it will have been shown that, having secured Mrs. Ssabo's signature to a will In favor of her mother in Europe, he lured the woman out on Greenwood lake in a rowboat and there strangled her in a brief struggle, using a mysterious, little-known method of strangulation accomplished by the slight pressure of the thumbs on the carotid arteries at the neck. This is the con tentlon of the prosecuting attorney, i Of course a Jury will have to decide It. Gibson says that the boat upset, that Mrs. Szabo and he were flung Into the water; she drowned and he was barely ablo to Bave himself. Then as her attorney and administrator he possessed himself of her fortune of about $10,000. Rut when Mrs. Szabo's body waa exhumed the physicians re-' ported that she had not died of drowning. There was no sign of water in the lungs. She had been strangled before she went into the water, they said. This strangulation by the thumbs , on the carotid was alleged in a mur-1 der case once before, when Private William C. Howard, U. S. A., was tried at Sueverville, Tenn., two years ago for the murder of his wife as she slept. Private Thomas A. Doyle swore that he had once explained to Howard how a human being could thus be slain and the killing, if done deftly, leave only so slight a bruise on the throat that the embalming would re- ; move all trace of It. 8mall Thing May Convict Gibson. But when Gibson heard the result of the autopsy declaring that Mrs. Szabo had died of strangulation because there was no water In .the lungs he only smiled. He confidently j advanced the suggestion that the un-; dertaker who had embalmed the body | had with Instruments drawn off the water from all parts of the Interior of the corpse. The undertaker said he had done this. But the doctors said this was no explanation at all. They called attention to the scientific and thoroughly established fact that when water Is drawn Into the lungs by a living creature the lungs inevitably show signs of congestion. Mrs. Szabo's did not. So. If Gibson Bhall be declared guilty, this little fact will have been pivotal In swinging the jury's verdict for the embalming fluid left no telltale scars of thumbs adroitly pressed on the victim's neck. O* single ill-considered statement, from the lips of Henry Clay Beattie, the Richmond, Va., wife murderer, first directed against him the suspicion of investigators who had gone to the scene of his crime, unsuspectingly, in all friendliness and sympathy toward the youthful husband. He had told his story of how 'as he drove with his wife in his motor car at night along the lonely Midlothian turnpike a man nad halted him with a shotgun and berated him for careless driving. When he made angry retort the man in the road had answered with a charge of buckshot which struck Beattie's young wife in the face and killed her. "He was really aiming at me, but just the instant before he fired I had leaned forward to throw in the clutch and start the machine and the charge struck my wife." The relatives of his wife's parents, to whose home he had brought her body, believed his story. Her uncle, j an influential man, begged the as Absence of Lui.g Congestion in Gibson Case. sistance of a railroad detective. Ixmis Seheyer. Scheyer listened without suspicion until Beattie made a certain answer to one of his questions. "About how far away was the man standing when he shot?" "Oh," said Beattie, without hesitation. thoughtlessly, "about six feet away!" Convicted Beattie. From that instant Schever's lnvesti, gations turned in a manner that culi minated in Beattie going to the death chair, for the detective had examined the wound on the dead girl's countenance. He knew that the load from a shotgun at a range of six feet would have scattered so far as to THING have torn half the girl's face away. In reality the wound In her cheek waa perfectly round, a little larger than a quarter of a dollar, and powder marked. And, what waa more, the wadding of the cartridge had sunk Into her face. It waa afterward proved that Heattle had induced his wife to get out of the motor car Into the road, that he had brought the shotgun out from a hiding place, struck her down with the butt end of It, and. as she waa prostrate In the road, pressed the muzzle hard against her upturned cheek and fired. The omlsBion of an "1"?so Blight a thing as that?In the writing or nis name sent Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer, to the death house In Sing Sing and later, by favor of Governor Hlgglns, to life Imprisonment In the same Institution. Patrick had planned the murder of wealthy, old. Invalid William M. Rice, conspiring with the aged man's valet, Jones, to possess himself of the greater part of the old man's millions. Before anybody had knowledge of Rice's death Patrick sent the valet to the old man's bank with a check for $25,000 made out In Patrick's favor and signed In the name of the dead man, "W. M. Rice." The bank clerk had no BUBpiclon of forgery. Wi?t attracted his attention was that alth',ugh the Indorsement was "Albert T. Patrick" the name written In the body of the check was spelled "Abert T. Patrick." This discrepancy caused him to telephone to Rice; this brought out the fact of Rice's death and aroused suspicion. Just as Patrick was sending the aged millionaire's body to a crematory where all evidence of chloroform poisoning would have been destroyed the coroner Intervened and Patrick's arrest followed. Betrayed by Locket. Bertram Spencer died In the electric chair In Massachusetts a few weeks ago Decause tne iobb or a smaii locket he had been wearing as a watch charm betrayed him. A burglar had been working successfuly in Springfield for three years. He had committed upward of thirty crimes and had Bhamefully mistreated women and girls in the households that he Invaded. Finally, in seeking to escape from a house *here he had alarmed L ?cket in the Spencer Case. three women, he shot and killed a tonrthnr Hilt fnr siv >UUllfc PL iiuui icatiici. <^uv 4W. months afterward he escaped detection. The apparent regularity of his life, open to public view, warded suspicion from him. By day he worked regularly and faithfulv as a shipping clerk in a big Institution. He was highly regarded there. He had a young and pretty wife and chIM; a neat, pretty home to which he was seen returning every evening from work. And the policeman on the post never saw him leave it at night Spencer had a devious method ol getting out of It and In again unob served. Emboldened, after the passing ol many months, by his complete escapt in the matter of the school teacher's murder, Sppneer essayed anothei burglary. This time he placed a lad der against a second story window and climbed up. The top of the lad der slipped and thumped the window This awakened a man sleeping it the room: he rushed to the window Spencer, throwing his legs about th< sides of the ladder, slid swiftly to th< ground, ran away and got safely t< his home. Hut In the confession tha he made later he said: "As I was running away I realize* that a locket I wore on my cham had been broken from Its chain as slid down the ladder. Put it tumble* | in the grass and I made up my mfn* I could sneak back the next night am retrieve It." It was no wonder he was so anxlou about It?the locket contained photc graphs of his mother and sister an* was marked with a monogram of hi Initials. The locket was found th> next morning in the grass by the mai he had attempted to rob who wa seeking the obviously possible clew o footprints. Two days later Spence was arrested and a raid on his hous turned up quantities of loot confirms torv of the suspicion that the out wardly respectable shipping cler and householder was a burglar am murderer. Rats and a monkey, an old half do lar, a cigar case, an old woman's pr vate stitching mark on a dead man' sock, a bit of oilcloth, have figure' half uncannily In the detection of murderers. Jesse Pomeroy, one of the worst cases of Badism known to criminolo- I gists, a lad who murdered Bmaller j children solely for the caprice of the thing, hid his last little victim under the ground, slaking her body with quicklime to destroy it. Rats from a nearby barnyard nosed beneath the thin layer of earth, ate of the quick- j lime and were killed by It The number of dead rats caused astonishment, which led to the digging of the ground, the finding of the child's body, and eventually to Jesse Pomeroy being sent to prison for life. That was forty-one years ago, and he is still in prison. Paul Miller In 1898 robbed and murdered Francis Newton, a Brookfleld, Mass., farmer, and Newton's wife. None heard or saw the crime. Miller possessed himself of the old man's money, made his way to a railroad station and In buying a ticket to a distant place gave the ticket agent a half-dollar dated 1836. The agent noted the age of the coin and ] decided to keep it as a souvenir. Unconsciously he linked in his memory the old half-dollar with the man that had given It to him. He showed the Cigar Case In the Blrchall Case. coin to a friend, who recognized It as a pocket piece that farmer Newton had carried for years. With the description of Miller given by the agent and the knowledge of to what destination he had purchased a ticket. Miller wsb captured, brought back and hanged. The case In which the monkey performed was many years ago, but the fact that the animal first brought suspicion on his master's murderers and figured as a witness or "exhibit" In the trial is a part of the court records of the state of Mississippi. Old man Ackerman was a traveling river showman. He had a unique houseboat in which were faded wax figures of Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield; Queen Victoria and other characters, and a Punch and Judy show. He had trained animals as well, star of which was Jocko, a trained monkey, whose devotion to old Ackerman was such that he would whine all night If not permitted to sleep at the old man's feet Monkey Gave Clue. Ackerman had traveled the river for vpnrn- hln chna' n-ng nonnlnr Vto had accumulated a fortune. It was known that the lone showman bad been met at Devall's Landing by a man named Starr and his wife, who begged a passage along the river. He invited them on his boat and started her adrift down the river. At the next landing the old man had disappeared. The Starrs said he had become drunk and fallen overboard in the night. Hut the investigators who went aboard the boat noticed the behavior of Jocko. Tin* monkey maintained a steady scowl at Stair and his wife, and when they came anywhere within the length of his chain he would make frantic rushes of rage toward them. His antics so lmpresjed the inquirer.' that a rigid investigation was made; old man Ackerman's body was recovered from the river, and its condition proved that he had been bludgeoned to death Wood stains were round on the clothing of the Starrs and the place they had cached the old man's bag of money was discovered. At their trial the monkey was brought into court. He had been kept In a . cell and was the last witness pro- ' duced. No sooner did he enter the room than he chattered and screamed i and made fiercely in the direction of the prisoners. The verdict of guilty against Starr and his wife came in a i very littlo while afterward i And there was the matter of the cigar case. J. Reginald Rlrchall. a rascally Englishman, decoyed a felf low-countryman, F. C. Benwell, into . a swamp at Woodstock, near the village of Niagara Falls. He had interf ested Benwell in the possible purchase of timber lands and had the young man send to his father in England for a draft. Having entrapped him in the woods. Birchall shot him dead, with the idea that, impersonating Benwell. he could forge his name sufficiently well to receipt for the draft from the other man's father and get the cash. After he killed Benwell he cut off every identifying mark on the man's clothing, slipped his ring from his finger, took his watch, his papers r and other belongings and left his vie { tiro in the swamp, confident that, as j Benwell was totally unknown in the , locality, the body would never be j identified Hut in transferring Ben} ! well's belongings to his own pockets j he inadvertently dropped the young j man's cigar case. In his diary after] wprd Birchall wrote: 3 ! "I was utterly insane when I overlooked the cigar case." ^ The finding of it led to the lden. tity of R?nwell and to the arrest and p conviction of his slayer. i s To Instruct Children. f ! The Royal theater at Berlin, in anr swer to the request of many citizens e "to give a performance at reduced i- prices, so that school children might !- receive the benefit and the pleasure." k responded by setting aside a Sunday d afternoon for that purpose. The house j was filled to capacity by an appreciaI tivc youthful audience, and now a I- movement is on foot to make the g "school children matinee" a pertna d nent feature. MLS Of CHASE IN THE BACK YARD Brooklynite Makes the Discovery That Cats Are Good Quarry. PUTS STOP TO WAILS Spoil* Unrivaled Trystlng Place for Cats Contemplating Matrimony, Where Ardent Toma Gavo Loud Voice to Their Sentiments. Brooklyn, N. Y.?You can't shoot bear or moose in New York state, but one ardent sportsman, whose work keeps him from satisfying his love of the chase where wild life abounds, has satisfied his craving for thai form of excitement in this way: Fate has decreed that be should live in Brooklyn, and around the bach yard of his home runs a high board fence. This fence Is the night prom enade for all the cats from Joralemon street to Coney Island. Old maid cats come there to meet distant rela tlves, sedate married cats bring theli families, and as a trystiug place foi cats contemplating matrimony It Is un rivaled. There Is a church right bach of the house, and In the shadows ol Its gothic arches ardent Toms glvt voice to their sentlmentB in wails that pervade the neighborhood. The sportsman stood all this with such patience as he could command until one night, not so long ago, hit wife aroused him from his "beauty' sleep to tell him she was sure r%me heartless wretch had abandoned s baby in the churchyard. "You must go over there and make sure," Bhe said. "I can't stand it a minute longer." "My dear," he expostulated, "It's the dead of night and very chilly." His remonstrances were cut short by a long-drawn wall such as could only come from a baby suffering from hunger and cold. Hastily he donned dressing gown and slippers, and, stumbling down the dark, front stairs, made for the churchyard. As he entered the gate he found the policeman on "fixed post" at the corner had spotted him and was close at his heels. "There's a baby In the churchyard." he explained through chattering teeth. The policeman, with a club of sympathy, followed to the place from iii His Aim Was Still Good. which the cries had come, only to send scurrying into the shadow two cats, one being a big. gray Tom. The policeman sat down on the steps of the church and laughed a3 no policeman was ever known to laugh before, but the sportsman went back to bed with rage In his heart. Pie thought It all over the next day, and that night, as he went home, stopped In a hardware store and bought an air gun and some buckshot. Right after dinner he made an excuse for going upstairs and locked himself In the bathroom, which overlooks the churchyard. Opening the window and putting out the light, he waited for the first cat to appear. He found his aim was still good, for that cat o appeared with a yowl that brought deep satisfaction to tne sportsman s heart. Since the inspiration came to him he has not lacked for thrills almost equal to those of the Maine woods. The only trouble is, cats are becoming scarce. Mule and Negro Drop Dead. Birmingham, Ala.?While unhitching a mule that had dropped de>d the other day. Amos Crypt, a negro driver, fell dead across the muie's body. Doctors attributed death to heart failure, brought on by the excitement aver the mule's death. Charles Came Back. Los Angeles.?When Charles E. Wilson walked into his boarding house, the landlady fainted. He had been officially reported dead and his grave had been dug preparatory to receiving his corpse. Saved the Building. Denver, Colo.?The warm ray3 of a lamp in St. Mark's church aroused a pet tortoise in a box, causing him to wiggle and overturn the lamp. The tiremen saved the building. Getting Even. Tour first name is June, Is it, little girl?" 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